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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

A thousand times that I have said TODAY, TODAY, TODAY...

…I’m sending my first
batch of queries today!

(And I’m trying
REALLY hard to be okay with that and keep, you know, breathing.)

This is it, you
guys. I am chasing a dream so real. Is it weird if I say that I’m actually
really excited to receive my first rejection?? It’s the first step, you know?
It will be my first piece of tangible proof that I’ve stopped wishing and
started doing. You have to follow your dreams, right? You have to bet on
yourself, and you have to be willing to fail. Try and fail, but never fail to
try.

“Sometimes
dreams, as much as they seem like they are our imagination, start like a little
seed here, and become…Look at this awesome tree (draws a tree on the
whiteboard.) You know what I mean? At one point things are just ideas, you
know, which is almost like a waiting dream. But I always think ideas are
worthless. Ideas are like trash, you know. Everybody’s got a great idea, right?
I think unless
you do something about an idea, it will never become reality. That’s the thing about dreams. I never thought I’d be standing here
in front of you; I never thought I’d be the guy on stage. I never thought that.
I did a lot of crazy shit when I was young. I’m sure none of you have. But it’s
interesting, just to be a witness and a person…Almost in a way, a dream is like
travelling in time because I never thought I’d be this guy over here and then have this happen and end up over here,
if this is a graph that represents achieving your dreams (he drew that on the
whiteboard). I never thought that would be possible.The craziest part about living dreams is –
the absolute most insane part is that if you go for it and actually fixate on the wildest
dream that you have, there’s a great chance that it actually could come true. That’s the biggest secret that people who live dreams actually
know, and people who don’t live dreams don’t know. That’s what separates a lot
of people from the guy who’s standing on stage and the person who’s in the audience.
But really when you look at it, who’s allowing me to live my dreams? All of you
guys at the show! Strange, you know? You guys have all decided that I’m living my
dream by showing up, right? But I’m here to report, if I’m the time traveller, I’m
like holy
shit! You can do it! You can actually make your wildest dreams come true... <clip> It’s incredible
to see that if
you work hard enough you could make dreams a reality. And your beliefs and your
desires, your fantasies, your imagination…All of that stuff is attainable. It’s pretty wild. So I would always say, if you can, bet on yourself. Ignore the non-believers.”

Sigh. Could I love
him more. (I’m inclined to say ‘no’, but he loves to prove me wrong.)

Okay. This is it. Jared’s
motivational speech has been viewed many times, I’m cranking Up In The Air for
extra strength, and the time has come (the walrus said, to talk of many things).
I am following my dreams and betting on myself.